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If you are
looking for cutting edge commentary on the culture, you have come to
the wrong place. I don't get out much, and anything I say about a film
is said after it has been released on DVD (Children of Men was the rare exception, and I saw that after it had been out in theatres for weeks).
And so last weekend I rented Pan's Labyrinth,the critically acclaimed fantasy by Mexican director Guillermo del Toro. "Pan's Labyrinth" is an unfortunate paraphrase; the literal
translation from the Spanish is "The Labyrinth of the Faun", a far more
evocative and accurate title; the filmmaker has stated emphatically the
Pan is not one of his characters.
The tale is
set in 1944, in fascist Spain. The heroine is Ofelia, a young girl of
11 or so, whose widowed mother Carmine has married Captain Vidal, a
fascist leader whose battalion is stalking the resistance that has
persisted in the forest. Carmine is carrying the Captain's child in her
womb, and as the film opens Ofelia and her mother are on their way to
live at the fascist camp in the woods. Along the way fairy tale-reading
Ofelia encounters a strange sculpture in the forest and a mysterious
insect, which she calls a fairy.
Upon arriving
at the camp the insect transforms into a real fairy and leads her to an
ancient labyrinth, which is a portal to the underworld, where she
encouters a faun.
Now, when I say "a faun" you
may think of CS Lewis' Mr Tumnus, or Disney's dancing furry children,
but this is quite a different creature. Lewis' fairy world was a
prettified and genteel English version of pagan myth. Toro's creatures-
no doubt more accurately- are darker, otherworldly, ambiguous and
dangerous. Even the fairies are carnivores. This faun hails from the
deep Earth, and his bones creak and groan when he moves, like old wood
or stone grinding far underground.
The faun, in
true fairy tale fashion, reveals to the girl that she is a lost
princess, and assigns her three tasks she must accomplish to return to
her kingdom.
Captain Vidal proves to be cold and cruel, as much an incarnation of evil as Ophelia is of innocence.
As so the tale unfolds, a classic story of good and evil, skillfully and beautifully rendered. This is filmmaker's art finely tuned. It was so
visually rich on my small TV screen, I can only imagine how it was on
the big screen.
While this is a fairy tale, it
is not for children: it is dark, often literally as much of the action
takes place at night or in the underground realm. Evil is portrayed
graphically and the violence is brutal. There are creatures that appear
to have arisen from a nightmare and the film is rich in imagery rooted
in mythical and psychological archetype.
isn't exactly a Christian fable; the faun could no more be called good
or evil than a thunderstorm or a mountain. And the only representative
of the Church that is seen is a profascist cleric shown stuffing his
face as he dismisses the hunger of the poor.
is, however, a profoundly moral and redemptive film, one that touches
the imagination and the heart as deeply as any good fairy tale. In the
truest sense it is more a Christian film than some of the sanctimonious
movies I have seen.
—Daniel Nichols


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The Hollywood Reporter has posted its video/transcript of the 2012 Actress Roundtable – 7 women were invited (Anne Hathaway, Amy Adams, Sally Field, Naomi Watts, Rachel Weisz, Helen Hunt and Marion Cotillard), but as we know only 5 will be nominated, and there's no guarantee it will be 5 exclusively from this group.
Everyone looks amazing, there is talk of craft, years of auditions (that continue today), what happens when you are stuck on the set of a movie you know is going to be sh-t, and also the dream parts that make it all worthwhile. They all speak, but some more than others (ahem, Anne Hathaway). Everyone is game to play. Great.
When I read it, I was eye-rolling Annie hard just because she is jazz hands personified (watching the video of the interview, she comes off much more centered). But the jazz hands are part of the package; Hathaway is incredibly talented, not just as an actress but also at choosing films (which I think is a talent in itself), so at least her artistic temperament has weight, as opposed to her Oscar cohost, actor/Yale doctoral candidate James Franco, who is just pretentious, period.
She was asked about the Oscars, and she acknowledges that they were perceived as a failure and then says (to Amy Adams) "from this wonderful media that buys pictures of your daughter." It's not the same thing though, is it? She says she knew that it didn't go well, but that it's the "media" that writes the narrative, and it's the same media that hounds children. So how is that media separated from the outlets she sits down with to promote her movies? Yes, there's a difference between Vogue and Radar Online, but to imply she doesn't participate in it all is very convenient (if a touch delusional).
Also, can I say I was a little embarrassed for her when she blurted out that she wanted kids? That's like being in a meeting with 10 coworkers and talking about your birth control method. If you want privacy don't blurt out that you want kids. I know she would say she's just living her life and won't be stopped by the terrible media, but I think James McAvoy lives his life. And so does Daniel Day Lewis, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson (I just watched Love, Actually), Liam Neeson (who was dropped out of Lincoln but has never been more in demand) - they all live, work, and have kids. I could not tell you the name of any of their children off the top of my head.
Amy Adams and Naomi Watts both spoke about the long hustle, Rachel Weisz is feisty, Marion Cotillard is French and (to steal a phrase from Lainey) enigmatic. Helen Hunt is supportive and graceful, but there is a quiet intensity to her. Not someone who has to be the center of attention, but her presence is known. She strikes me as someone who would be extremely tactile in person. And she has a statue (which isn't to say she doesn't want another), but she's also done a long-running sitcom and is particular about her roles – she is not filming back-to-back movies that she thinks will be Oscar bait. She will be one to watch come awards season.
But for me, Sally Field was the real standout. When she talked about selling out, making a buck, having to raise kids on her own - sacrificing years of her career for her family - that is something I think a lot of women (and men) can relate to. At 66, she still had the fight to put herself up for a role she was told she wasn't right for any longer (translation: too old). But she didn't give up and she never once says anything came easy -- she seems as proud of the fight as she is of the movie.
And because I know Lainey is going to post that video, let me confess that I've never seen any version of Les Misérables (I don't even know the major plot points). If you never hear from me again, it's likely that I have been expelled from the Faculty of Celebrity Studies.
(Lainey: why is there a pole in this picture???)
The Hollywood Reporter Actress Roundtable video and transcript.


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The Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators has decided to set up an informal wholesale energy market surveillance ad hoc expert group.
The goal of this group will be to advise and assist the Agency and national regulatory authorities in preparing for their wholesale energy market monitoring and surveillance activities according to Article 7 and 8 of Regulation (EU) No 1227/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2011 on wholesale energy market integrity and transparency (REMIT) in order to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the market monitoring activities, including the use of various market monitoring and surveillance tools (e.g. analysis of transaction reports, including orders to trade).
You may find more information in the Open letter.
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Sounds of Spring: Dan Warthen
Mets pitching coach Dan Warthen has had a watchful eye since his staff arrived. He addressed the positives so far that he has seen from the rotation early in camp.
LISTEN: Dan Warthen, Mets Pitching Coach
TOPICS: watching Santana, Pelfrey & Perez continue to impress everyone, Nieve's session, Niese is healthy, we need to better defensively & run the bases, we're going to pitch.
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It was the fall of 1976 when Sally Lindsay went looking for a college student named Stan Honey to repair her Volvo 122S. She was told that Honey, an engineering major at Yale, had a car like hers, and was a guy who could fix just about anything.
"I towed my car to the Yale yacht club, the student club where he was living, saw him, and thought, 'Oh, he's pretty nice,' " she recalled with a laugh.
Honey, for his part, was thrilled to be meeting "one of the most skilled female sailors around."
Nearly 37 years later, Sally and Stan, who live in San Francisco, are to sailing insiders what Chris Evert and Jimmy Connors were to tennis enthusiasts – the sweethearts of their sport, only with a better relationship outcome.
Sally Lindsay is now Sally Honey, a sailing legend who is a two-time U.S. Yachtswoman of the Year and a North American champion in the 505 sailboat classification, where she regularly trounced her male competitors.
Stan Honey, 58, is not only one of sailing's top navigators, setting records in many around-the-world regattas, but also a game-changing engineer whose tinkering has taken him from cars, boats and navigation tools to new systems that have changed the way fans see sports on TV, whether it's football, NASCAR or the Olympics.
'Sailing is huge'
Creator of the electronic yellow first-down line for NFL games, Honey is now bringing his brand of augmented reality to televised sailing. LiveLine, which Honey developed for the America's Cup at the request of Oracle co-founder (and Cup defender) Larry Ellison, superimposes an array of graphics on the nautical field – from boat speed to currents – with the goal of making racing on the water understandable to the average television viewer.
"What brought us together was the car – the Volvo 122S – but what kept us together was sailing," Sally Honey said over a late lunch following a day of sailing on San Francisco Bay.
Stan Honey, who shares his wife's self-effacing manner, agreed that sailing has been the glue in their marriage. "Sailing is huge," he said. "We have this very strong shared interest, and we both managed to get pretty good at it."
Chuckling, he added, "The other thing that happened is that Sally and I raced together in the (two-person) 505s. The competition can be very stressful, and most couples don't even try to compete; it's too risky. But in our case, we figured out how to work together and trust one another. It made the rest of our marriage a cakewalk by comparison."
Gary Jobson, who has known the Honeys since Stan's Yale days and is now an NBC commentator for the America's Cup, said Sally and Stan "complement one another."
"I talk with Stan every day about how the graphics look and are working," said Jobson, who won the America's Cup in 1977 with media mogul Ted Turner. "When you look at it onscreen, it's so understandable and simple that you think, 'Oh, that's easy.' But the technology behind it is immensely complicated. It's a quantum leap past anything the NFL does."
Author and Cup volunteer
Sally is writing a book on safety at sea, and she volunteers with the America's Cup race management, getting support boats ready and out on the water, and sometimes explaining to the non-sailors onboard the terms and maneuvers. Jobson laughed, recalling a recent day when he spotted a familiar-looking woman climbing around a race committee boat.
"I yelled over, 'If I didn't know better, I'd say that was Sally Honey cleaning the windows of that boat!' " Jobson said. "No job is too small for her."
Sally, 69, grew up sailing on Chesapeake Bay with her father.
"My dad was really competitive and he raced every weekend on Chesapeake Bay, and I sailed with him," Sally said. "I crossed the Atlantic with my dad when I was 20. It took me two days to get into it, then I never wanted it to end. It's the magic of being out there – the stars, sky, water. For me, it's where I'm most comfortable. When I'm out and feeling that rocking of the boat, that's when I'm the most relaxed. Any day on the water is a good day."
Sally graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where her father was head of the chemistry department, with a degree in anthropology. She worked as a researcher at Harvard's Laboratory of Community Psychology, and found the work interesting but unfulfilling.
"I grew up in a research family, but I always loved working with my hands," she said. "One day when I needed a new sail and couldn't afford one, I went to a sail loft and said, 'Can you tell me how to make a sail?' " She was directed to Ted Hood's sail loft, which hired people off the street.
"I started there at minimum wage, and quit my research job," she said. "Making sails was so much fun. From there, I ended up working for different sail makers in Marblehead (Mass.). I was married to Mark Lindsay and had my son, Tamsin. Just after I had Tamsin, I bought a sewing machine and started a business in my basement." Two years later, she was offered a job at what was considered the pinnacle of one-design sails, North Sails in Connecticut.
"That's what I was doing when I met Stan," she said. Her first marriage had ended and Tamsin was then 3 years old. "I'd won the Martini Rossi Yachtswoman of the Year twice. I was very competitive. It was kind of a part of my job to compete – and compete against men." Smiling, she added, "I was racing against Stan and I beat him. I just loved getting into the zone, where all you're thinking about is beating anyone else to the mark. It lifts you out of your world, and it's addictive."
A sailing family
It was well known in sailing circles that Sally's personality went from sweet to serious as soon as she donned a certain red bandanna for races. It was to keep the hair out of her eyes, but it was a warning sign for the competition.
"Sally's red bandanna was legendary," Stan said with a laugh. "As soon as she had it on, people would say, 'Trouble.' "
Stan grew up in Southern California and worked his way through Yale as an electrician. His parents, Joan and David Honey – he was a successful businessman and she was a university fundraiser – sailed for fun, something that rubbed off on Stan and his older sister. His first boat was an 8-foot-long fiberglass Guppy, and he learned to navigate by studying the stars in the sky.
At first, navigating was "all celestial and dead reckoning (a method that used one's course and speed to estimate current boat position)," he said. "Then the technology evolved quickly, starting in about 1980."
After Honey graduated from Yale, he and Sally moved to Northern California, where Stan worked for SRI, the Stanford Research Institute, doing military-related work, and earned his master's degree in electrical engineering at Stanford. On the side, he navigated and sailed professionally, which he'd done since high school, and was asked to navigate Nolan Bushnell's maxi-yacht in the 1983 Transpac race. During the race, Bushnell, who had founded Atari Inc., became impressed with Stan's navigational electronics.
Bushnell eventually provided the seed money to help Stan start the digital-mapping firm Etak (named after a Polynesian term for navigation).
That company was sold to Rupert Murdoch in 1989 for about $35 million, and Honey ended up as head of technology for News Corp. "But I went slowly crazy," Honey recalled. "I didn't feel like I was building anything."
Through his work at News Corp., Honey got to know Fox Sports CEO David Hill, and the two often talked about promising new technologies that could enhance sports viewing.
"I said it was becoming possible to insert stuff onscreen that wasn't there," Honey said. "You could put in fake billboards, and the like. Well, David thought the billboard idea was the stupidest thing he'd ever heard, but he said, 'You could put a trail behind a hockey puck.' That's where it started."
Fox was trying to attract more viewers to its hockey coverage, and the idea was to make the fast-moving puck easier to follow.
Honey left News Corp. with Murdoch's blessings, and founded Sportvision. While the trail behind the puck only irritated hockey fans, Honey and his team went on to invent the virtual first-down line for the NFL, strike-zone outlines for Major League Baseball, shot tracking for golf, overlays for NASCAR, and graphics for other sports, including the Olympics.
As Stan built up the business, Sally focused on learning to sail on San Francisco Bay, raising her son (who is now a technology specialist in the Portland Public Schools), and building up her own business, the Spinnaker Shop. The company grew from sails and canvas work into an industrial sewing business that contracted with the aerospace industry. She sold the business in 2007.
E-mail about Ellison
In 2010, Stan Honey was off sailing as navigator of Groupama 3 in the around-the-world Jules Verne race when he got an e-mail from Sally saying that Larry Ellison had just won the America's Cup, and was talking about him. A reporter had asked Ellison, "Now that you've won the America's Cup, what do you plan to do with the TV side of things?" Ellison said he was going to "look up an old sailing colleague, Stan Honey, and put yellow lines on the water."
"I had sailed with Larry on Sayonara in 1995, when I was just developing the first-down line and the hockey puck," Stan said. "I mentioned to Larry at the time that sailing would be a perfect sport for the insertion of graphics. He immediately got it."
Still, Honey was stunned that Ellison remembered the conversation.
"What's interesting about the America's Cup is that it's the oldest trophy in sports, but it's the most aggressive in the use of technology," Honey said. "The thing I'm pleased about is that in the past, sailing has been fairly difficult for the new sport fan to understand. This ability to put graphics on the water has made the sport much more accessible to sports fans who are not yet sailing fans."
The beauty of the LiveLine system, which has won two Emmys and is the most technically complicated thing Honey has ever done, is that "you take a live view of the real world and you augment it by making things visible that are not normally visible." One of the newer features of Honey's system, for example, is to show the "bad air" coming off of the boats.
The bad air
"In sailing, one of the things that's important to competitive sailors is the turbulent air that comes off of the sails," Honey said. "Skilled sailors know where that bad air is and know how to stay out of it, or they know how to put their opponent in the bad air. That's something that's hard for commentators to explain, and we've made it visible."
In September, when a victor is declared in the 34th America's Cup, Sally and Stan look forward to returning to what brought them together from the start.
"We are in the process of turning our Cal 40, a 40-foot sloop, into a cruising boat," Sally said. "I've done so much racing. I'm not that interested in racing around the buoys anymore. I'd much rather just go sailing."
The dream, Sally and Stan say, is to step aboard Illusion and set sail. Sally will most likely be in the cockpit, steering, and Stan will start out on the foredeck. All they know is that they'll head out past the Golden Gate Bridge, and take a left.
Julian Guthrie is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: email@example.com Twitter: @JulianGuthrie


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The European eel (Anguilla anguilla) has a very unusual and fascinating life cycle. Adults have long, narrow bodies, with a continuous dorsal, anal and tail-fin (2). The skin is slimy, the lower jaw is longer than the upper jaw, and the scales are tiny or absent (2). The colour of adults depends on their age; they are often brown, black or olive-green with yellowish bellies. Some adults may be silvery (known as 'silver eels'); the lifecycle stages differ greatly in appearance (2).
The European eel has a fascinating life-cycle; it is a 'catadromous' species, breeding in the sea and migrating to freshwater in order to grow before returning to the sea to spawn (4). It is thought that all European eels spawn in the Sargasso Sea. The larvae, which look like curled leaves and are known as 'leptocephalli', drift in the plankton for up to three years (2), and are carried by the Gulf Stream towards the coasts of Europe (3). They then undergo metamorphosis into young eels; at this stage they are known as 'glass eels' because they are transparent (2). They become darker in colour and start to migrate up freshwater streams in large numbers; they are known as 'elvers' at this time and measure around 50 millimetres in length (2). The eels, now called 'brown' or 'yellow eels' grow in freshwater (5), with males and females spending 6 to 12 and 9 to 20 years in freshwater, respectively (3). Towards the end of this time, they become sexually mature; they turn a silvery colour and migrate back towards the sea on dark, moonless and stormy nights; during this time they are known as 'silver eels' (5). Upon returning to the sea, the European eel lives in mud, crevices, and under stones (3). Spawning occurs during winter and early spring in the Sargasso Sea (3). This is a very long-lived species with a maximum life span of 85 years (3).
This eel is predated upon by birds, including cormorants and gulls, as well as a number of species of fish (3). Remarkably, they can survive out of water for several hours on damp nights; they may travel overland on dark rainy nights (5).
Found in the rivers of the North Atlantic, Baltic and Mediterranean Seas; the European eel also occurs along European coasts from the Black Sea to the White Sea in Russia. Spawning takes place in the Sargasso Sea in the western Atlantic (3).
Part of the European eel's life cycle is spent in the sea, and part in freshwater rivers. It is often common on the shore (2).
The European eel is classified as Critically Endangered (CR) on the IUCN Red List (1).
The population of the European eel is threatened at present, and eel stocks have declined in recent years. However, there is currently very little scientific knowledge of this species, which would aid its management. The threats facing the species are unknown; however, pollution, overfishing, habitat degradation, parasite infection and changes in climate have all been forwarded as potential causes of the decline (6).
The European Union is currently funding research that aims to halt the decline of the European eel population (6).
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Corning Optical Communications LLC, part of Corning Incorporated's (NYSE:GLW) Telecommunications segment, will showcase innovation through exhibits and hands-on demonstrations Oct. 17-19 at the SCTE Cable-Tec Expo® 2012 in Orlando, Fla.
In its new exhibit (booth #1022), Corning will feature its latest solutions designed for use in all-fiber access networks: switch center, outside plant, fiber-to-the-business (FTTB), and fiber-to-the-home (FTTH). Customers will get first-hand experience with Corning's flexible wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) solutions for FTTB networks.
Corning's switch center display will feature both the Enhanced Management Frame (EMF) System, a design optimized for fiber density and scalability, and the Eclipse® Hardware Family with its FTTx-friendly configurations which includes the coarse WDM module.
There will also be demonstrations of the ALTOS® Cable with FastAccess™ Technology, a new product for the outside plant. This innovative design simplifies removing the cable jacket which decreases cable-end access time and reduces risk of fiber damage from sharp cable access tools. Other outside plant products on display will be the SCF Closure and OptiTect® Local Convergence Cabinets and Housings.
Demonstrations of the field-installable OptiSnap® Connector will highlight how its high-precision mechanical splice technology enables FTTx networks to be installed quickly and cost effectively. The FTTB/FTTH portion of Corning's booth will also include OptiSheath® Sealed Terminals to show how operators can maximize their existing fiber plant through WDM deployment. Additional products shown will be OptiSheath MultiPort Splitter Terminals, OptiWay® Network Interface Devices and the FlexNAP™ System for high-speed deployments.
At noon Thursday, Oct. 18, Darin Howe, product specialist for Corning Optical Communications, will present "Introduction to Corning Outside Plant Cables with FastAccess Technology" at the SCTE Center Stage.
For additional information on Corning Optical Communications products and services, contact a customer care representative at 1-800-743-2675, toll free in the United States; or (+1) 828-901-5000, international; or visit the website at www.corning.com/opcomm.
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This press release contains "forward-looking statements" (within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995), which are based on current expectations and assumptions about Corning's financial results and business operations, that involve substantial risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially.
These risks and uncertainties include: the effect of global political, economic and business conditions; conditions in the financial and credit markets; currency fluctuations; tax rates; product demand and industry capacity; competition; reliance on a concentrated customer base; manufacturing efficiencies; cost reductions; availability of critical components and materials; new product commercialization; pricing fluctuations and changes in the mix of sales between premium and non-premium products; new plant start-up or restructuring costs; possible disruption in commercial activities due to terrorist activity, armed conflict, political or financial instability, natural disasters, adverse weather conditions, or major health concerns; adequacy of insurance; equity company activities; acquisition and divestiture activities; the level of excess or obsolete inventory; the rate of technology change; the ability to enforce patents; product and components performance issues; retention of key personnel; stock price fluctuations; and adverse litigation or regulatory developments. These and other risk factors are detailed in Corning's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the day that they are made, and Corning undertakes no obligation to update them in light of new information or future events.
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Corning Incorporated (www.corning.com) is the world leader in specialty glass and ceramics. Drawing on more than 160 years of materials science and process engineering knowledge, Corning creates and makes keystone components that enable high-technology systems for consumer electronics, mobile emissions control, telecommunications and life sciences. Our products include glass substrates for LCD televisions, computer monitors and laptops; ceramic substrates and filters for mobile emission control systems; optical fiber, cable, hardware & equipment for telecommunications networks; optical biosensors for drug discovery; and other advanced optics and specialty glass solutions for a number of industries including semiconductor, aerospace, defense, astronomy and metrology.


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The Six Figure Mentors Newsletter From Mark Ford, Six Figure Mentors Elite Member – Edition 8
Welcome to this weeks edition of your weekly newsletter and blog updates from Mark Ford, Home Business Coach, Entrepreneur and Digital Marketer. Living a laptop lifestyle and helping you improve your income with the Six Figure Mentors digital business system.
The Six Figure Mentors is an internet business training system that provides you with all the internet marketing tools, digital business and laptop lifestyle training, resources and community you need to fast track your success and build your ultimate lifestyle business! This is the same business system used by Mark Ford day in and day out and it has been key to helping Mark learn how to profit with an online business.
This newsletter is published to my website visitors who are looking for information about the Six Figure Mentors and building a lifestyle business from home or wherever around the world there is an internet connection.
Mark Ford will publish this newsletter each Saturday and update and develop further the newsletter as time moves on, sharing with you any updates about the Six Figure Mentors business as they are published.
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every summer needs a soundtrack.
New Dare is up! And this week, we have a special guest – Morgan Novak! If you know Morgan, you know that she is the queen of playlists, the master of mixes. She's a pretty inspiring girl.
So this week, we dare you to make a mix/soundtrack/playlist and document it. Write down the songs, what they mean to you, where they've taken you, or whatever story you want to tell. Or just burn a CD and make a cool cover for it. Then share it with someone! I made the mix above for my friend Erin. I called it 'a girl's guide to summer' and it's full of all of my latest faves. (Like Metric, Wild Light, Tiny Masters of Today, Architecture of Helsinki, Manchester Orchestra, Passion Pit, Peter Bjorn and John...)
But I couldn't stop there. I tried, but I had two more playlists that I absolutely had to scrap. The mix above is called 'headbangers ball' and it's full of my most favorite metal, the heaviest of the heavy. I love this one.
I was really really excited to put all of these songs together. Like really. You have no idea how happy this makes me. Slipknot, Pantera, Tool, Rage ... and I just realized right now that I forgot Ministry. That's going to be a problem. I'm going to have to fix that.
And the last mix is called 'people watching.' That's the feeling these songs give me. Like you could be walking around downtown with your headphones on, doing an inner monologue about everyone who walks by. I like people watching. (This one has Rivers Cuomo, The Flaming Lips, Elliott Smith, the Kinks, Ben Folds...)
Fun, huh? I hope you'll play along! And definitely take a minute to go and check out what Morgan and the other Dare girls did. (More girls will be adding their pages throughout the day, so check back.) Also – leave a comment below if you're interested in a little giveaway! Just let me know which mix you think you'd like best: Soundtrack to Summer, Headbangers Ball or People Watching. I'll pick winners on Monday night. Also, a sincere thank you for all of the kind words on the last post. I love you, blog friends!
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Jen g, we have some very similar musical interests! although, i'll let you have all the heavy metal...ReplyDelete
- shannonAugust 14, 2009 1:56 PM
Jen! I love this idea. It will take some thought. I love the "people Watching" idea (and the cover- how awesome with the dolls!) You rock gf!ReplyDelete
Ok...I totally need a copy of the heavy. that is my fave: tool slipknot, etc...love love!!ReplyDelete
love all your scraptastic creativity too on the playlists!!!!
May just have to play this one.
Got big plans this weekend?
Hope you have a good one. My little nephew is turning 4. awwww...so will be throwing him a bday part tomorrow night. :D
later, sweets!
The People Watching mix sounds intriguing. I'm no good at putting together mix cd's. Everytime I even think about doing it, I think of John Cusacks line in High Fidelity about how putting together a mix tape is an art. Definitely not an art that I am talented in. :) Have a great weekend!!ReplyDelete
Hands down..PEOPLE WATCHING!ReplyDelete
LOVE this ... and my vote goes to the Soundtrack of Summer. Totally rocks (pun intended).ReplyDelete
"People Watching" is right up my alley! The Heavy we'll give to my hubby.ReplyDelete
i'd love a girls guide to teh summer or/and people watching mix cds :)ReplyDelete
These are all so cool! I'd love to hear the people watching one. That's a great idea for a mix.ReplyDelete
Hmmmmm, I'd probably like Headbangers Ball.......ReplyDelete
I like how you incorporated the CDs in the layouts, without it being too obvious.ReplyDelete
I think I'd like the Summer or the People Watching one, but def not the metal one!
- AnonymousAugust 15, 2009 2:12 AM
I really like your people watching mix! Ben Folds and Elliott Smith (although "Say Yes" isn't my favorite (don't kill me for saying that) - I'm more fond of Figure 8). And Ryan Adams and the Shins! Too good. Actually I think I'm going to have to make one myself. Thanks for the idea!ReplyDelete
Has to be Headbangers Ball, used to watch that show years ago, so funny! Hope you have some Killswitch Engage on there, lol ;)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 15, 2009 11:00 AM
That's hard one...either people watching or Summer, you pick!ReplyDelete
Super awesome layouts, too!
hey, hey, hey Jen Renee, hey, can I get a pair of purple or pink booties from ya? Can you bring them to Chi-town?
Headbanger's ball for sure! I <3 metal.ReplyDelete
dude. soundtrack to summer sounds bombin'.ReplyDelete
and that layout IS bombin'
i feel like a loser for saying bombin'
i'm done now.
ok, this giveaway idea! this rocks. i'd totally LOVE the people watching one.ReplyDelete
awesome pages girl.
thanks so much!
Ok this is indeed the coolest of the cool! I love the layouts and the playlists! I thinkg the people are watching list sounds amazing as does the summer sound track but I adore the metal page the best and think that one would be killer too! LOL! Now I'm crazy inspired! Thanks!ReplyDelete
Yeah dude! Love it! I need to get on these dares, I've been wanting to do all of them for the longest time, but haven't. I think I'm just not organized enough. :PReplyDelete
i love your projects :) and music suggs. (?)ReplyDelete
just read the last post, i'm not surprised at all, you totally deserve it! :) congrats.
oooohhh...Ministry...have to go put that on my playlist. Psalm 69. Oh man. I forgot all about them.ReplyDelete
ohhhhhhhh.......and Scarecrow.LOLReplyDelete
Not really a "headbangers ball" kinda girl, but the others sound right up my alley..."people watching" sounds especially sweet!ReplyDelete
WOW, I love these... they look so inspiring, a very fun idea to make something after the feeling you get from music. Hmmm I've never heared music that make me look at people but I ALWYAS walk around with my headphones on and dance along with the music ;) I'm going to make a metal mix right away! :D You really are great at this!!ReplyDelete
Such great pages!!! Would soooo Looove the People Watching!!!ReplyDelete
Though there are songs/artists I like on all 3, I would have to opt for Headbanger's Ball...Walk by Pantera totally takes me back!! I am curious to know which Ministry song you would have added...for me it would have to be Jesus Built My Hotrod, I loved the crap out of that song! It goes hand in hand with Who Was In My Room Last Night by Butthole Surfers...in my opinion, anyway. :)ReplyDelete


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Founded in 2002 the Danish non-profit organisation INDEX:'s mission is to secure high-quality design to improve life internationally. With their yearly INDEX:Award they honor design and architecture projects in five categories: Body, Home, Work, Play and Community. The winners in five categories will each receive 100,000 euros.
This year's 72 design finalists will be on public view at the INDEX:Award Exhibition, Kongens Nytorv, Copenhagen, starting August 21, 2009.
One of the finalists is the $700 House by the German architects Jan Schreiber and Stefan Becker, who planned this projects with the Technical University in Berlin.
The design is specifically intended for extremely poor countries in Latin America that have suffered from natural disasters such as earthquakes. To families and people who need proper, durable and affordable re-housing, this solution offers flexible construction that costs no more than $700. The house can easily be dismantled, moved and rebuilt on a new site with the same materials. Furthermore, its strong but flexible structure makes the design resistant to earthquakes.
"Our aim was to create a cheap and safe "real" house that could be constructed in a short time by volunteers and future owners," said the german architects behind the design, Jan Schreiber and Stefan Becker.
"Based on the fact that bricks are very cheap, widespread and locally produced in most latin-american countries on the one hand and the competition´s requirement of demountability on the other hand, we tried to work with pre-stressing instead of mortar. The walls are made of perforated bricks, tensioned between foundation and ring beam made of precast conrete elements. For pre-stressing we used a system of the packaging industry that is normally used to secure heavy goods: Sintetic fiber strips, stressed with a hand operated tightener. These strips can hold up to 50kN, depending on the width and are quiet cheap as well."


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A movement is afoot. It's called the DLIMH movement, and it's based on the popular new book "Dinosaurs Living in My Hair!" by Jayne M. Rose-Vallee.
About the book:
This whimsical book of rhymes with beautiful watercolor illustrations details how a little girl's curly hair makes her mornings difficult. Inspired by Rose-Vallee's daughter Lauren, now immortalized in the book as the hapless Sabrina, the response to rhymes like those excerpted below has been enormous from both boys and girls:
I think I see movement.
Do dinosaurs live
In my hair out of sight?
"Dinosaurs Living in My Hair!" received the Florida Authors and Publishers Association President's Book Award in two categories, Gold in Poetry and Silver in Cover Design. The book also received the Mom's Choice Gold Award for Children's Picture Book.
About the Author:
Jayne Rose-Vallee is a writer and the founder of Rosevallee Creations. Growing up on a farm in Battle Creek, Michigan, taught her hard work and a little bit of dirt builds character, and her mother's love of poetry and quick-witted humor sparked an early appreciation for good rhymes. Having raised three children, she found time in this next chapter of her life to follow her passion and write.
What Elle (8) thinks:
It's about a girl named Sabrina who has really crazy hair. She thinks that dinosaurs live in her hair because of all the curls. Then our mom says what a mess and brushes her hair. After that a bat comes out of her hair and she is beautiful.
If there were dinosaurs in my hair I would be creeped out. I would do whatever it takes to get them out. This book taught me that sometimes your hair can be a challenge and that's ok.
In response to the clamor, Rose-Vallee has now created a line of hair accessories, apparel, and a handmade Sabrina doll available at rosevalleecreations.com. She comments, "Our Facebook page is starting to have children send in their photos holding their dolls, reading their books, wearing their sweatshirts – all with CRAZY HAIR! It truly is a movement."
Meanwhile, a portion of all profits from the sale of the book goes to support the National Alopecia Areata Foundation (NAAF). Rose-Vallee explains that while the fictional Sabrina is blessed to have the problem of dinosaurs living in her curly thick hair, over sixty million people in the United States experience some form of hair loss, many of them children. Children suffering from this condition face tremendous challenges, and the NAAF offers support and tools to help them overcome emotional pain and build self-confidence; it also provides classroom education essential to advocating for them.


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Animal Emergency and Trauma Center , located in beautiful Poulsbo, Washington, is adding a Managing Emergency Veterinarian to its growing hospital.
Our practice has a fantastic team environment with committed staff, focused on providing quality care to our patients and clients. Client service is a high priority with our well trained and committed team. Our culture promotes respect, kindness and team collaboration with a goal of having our staff come to work feeling good about what they do and who they work with daily.
The Managing DVM role will be a combination of clinical and administrative duties, to include:
The ideal candidate will have extensive ER experience, with an interest in leadership responsibilities and will have the opportunity to mentor with the current MDVM.
We offer an outstanding benefit and compensation package and encourage professional growth and development. If you want to practice the highest standard of care with our skilled team of dedicated doctors and support staff we want to hear from you!
We are located on the beautifulKitsap Peninsula, where Poulsbo is known for its small town tourist feel with great restaurants, shops and marina. Poulsbo and the surrounding area provide numerous opportunities for outdoor adventurers including kayaking, hiking, boating, mountain climbing, and skiing. Nearby attractions include Olympic rain forest, Mt. Rainier, the Pacific Ocean and the beautiful waters of Puget Sound. We're a short 40 minute ferry ride to downtown Seattle!
Position will consist of both clinical and administrative responsibilities.


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Dear DB (think about it and you'll know what insult I'm using),
When you decided to up and leave town, the blog went all Greek. Then, terrorists started shooting at people from the side of the highway. Yes, I said terrorists - I'm now afraid of the highway. WTF?
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Posted by OH Bee Juan at 2:05 PM
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I see your DB and I raise you SABOD.
OH Bee Juan
How does that come?
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Have you found yourself seeking increased academic learning, leadership development opportunities, and spiritual connections? Are you engaged in Judaism and Jewish life but want to take it to the "next level"? Then Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion is the place for you!
HUC-JIR offers educational programs at four centers of learning – Cincinnati, Jerusalem, Los Angeles, and New York - to prepare rabbis, cantors, leaders in Jewish education, Jewish nonprofit professionals, pastoral counselors, and scholars for a life-long career. Join us as we work together creatively to engage people around the world in community and scholarship.
Whether you see yourself as a leader in a congregation, summer camp, day school, or university, or as a social activist helping to change the world, we offer programs to help you gain the skills and knowledge you need to help you transform and inspire others. And, you will be transformed and inspired along the way.
HUC-JIR is proud to have academic partnerships with a number of high ranking institutions, including the University of Cincinnati, the University of Southern California, New York University, and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. These associations provide cross-registration privileges, the use of libraries and other facilities, joint course offerings and cooperative degrees. Rabbinical students at the Jack H. Skirball Campus in Los Angeles have an opportunity to enroll in selected courses at the American Jewish University. Students at the New York campus also have an opportunity to enroll in selected courses at The Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
From study in Israel to learning state-side with the best scholars in the areas of classical and modern Jewish texts, you will become immersed in Jewish learning while translating it to on the ground experience through field work opportunities.
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Representatives of the Serbs from Kosovo and Metohia met with Serbian Patriarch Irinej
His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, met with representatives of the Serbs from Kosovo and Metohija at the Serbian Patriarchate in Belgrade yesterday, on 25 April 2013. The delegation was composed by Deputy Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohia Mr. Krstimir Pantic, head of the county of Kosovo-Mitrovica Mr. Radenko Nedeljkovic and presidents of the municipalities of Leposavic, Zvecan, Kosovska Mitrovica and Zubin Potok – Mr. Dragisa Vasic, Mr. Dragisa Milovic, Mr. Dragisa Vlaskovic and Mr. Slavisa Ristic. His Grace Bishop Teodosije of Raska-Prizren attended the meeting.
Following the meeting with the Patriarch, the representatives of the Serbs from Kosovo and Metohia met with Serbian Prime Minister Mr. Ivica Dacic and the First Deputy Prime Minister Mr. Aleksandar Vucic.


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Ohio Valley Conference honors Roger Ealey with 2012-2013 Media Award
Brentwood, TN – On Monday the Ohio Valley Conference announced that Roger Ealey, voice of the Golden Eagle Sports Network for Tennessee Tech University, has been named the winner of the 2012-13 OVC Media Award, which is given to a media member who exhibits the highest commitment to covering the OVC.
The awards were established in 2010 as a way to recognize the media members who provide publicity for the Conference, its member institutions and intercollegiate athletics, perform their jobs in a fair, consistent and accurate manner, provide all-around coverage for a variety of sports and demonstrate the ability to go above and beyond their normal beat or job description.
Ealey earned the award given to current media members covering the league; the OVC Media Lifetime Achievement Award (given to someone who formerly covered the OVC) was not awarded this year."The OVC has a lot of great stories to tell and we are fortunate to have an outstanding group of media covering our schools, which was evident in the great candidates we had for the awards again this year," said Kyle Schwartz, OVC Assistant Commissioner for Media Relations. "It is great to have an award that recognizes media members who have made significant contributions in covering the OVC and its member institutions."
Ealey has covered Tennessee Tech sports for over 25 years, providing a fair and balanced voice during that time period. In his tenure he has covered nearly every football, men's basketball and women's basketball game while also covering baseball, softball and volleyball contests over the years.
"This award really means a lot coming from our peers around the league," Ealey said. "It is a real honor and a pleasure to be considered alongside people like Brian Nielsen, Neal Bradley and Mike Parris, who have won the award. We have such a great rapport around the league, not only with the radio guys, but with the print and TV media, as well. It seems that everybody has been doing this a long time, they are all hard-working and that is what makes it such an honor."
Ealey began his career as a color commentator alongside play-by-play veteran Gene Davidson, replacing Hall of Fame sideman Eldon Burgess. He quickly worked into being the play-by-play voice for women's basketball before eventually taking over all play-by-play duties.
Ealey's ability to describe the action earned him the opportunity to call play-by-play for several TSSAA State Championship football games on the statewide radio and television network. Ealey, who is employed full-time by WLIV Radio, has also the voice for Livingston Academy broadcasts for football and basketball for more than 30 years and also contributes stories and columns to area newspapers.
Ealey and his wife, Pam, have two daughters.
"I can't think of anyone around the league who does not like Roger Ealey," said Rob Schabert, Tennessee Tech assistant athletic director for sports information and broadcasting. "He calls games fairly and honestly, and he always exhibits class and sportsmanship, win or lose. Like a lot of the media people around the OVC, he tries to tell the story of the players, the teams and the conference in a positive and upbeat manner. He is a tremendous asset to Tennessee Tech Athletics, and to the Ohio Valley Conference, and we are all thrilled that he has received this recognition. He certainly deserves it."
The OVC Media Awards are determined in a nomination process and vote that included the media relations staffs at OVC member institutions as well as the Conference office. Winners are presented their awards in the fall during to be determined athletic contests on the campus of the school whose beat they cover/have covered.
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n addition to about 2.9 million Polish Jews (mostly killed in Operation Reinhard), about 2.8 million non-Jewish Polish citizens perished during the course of the war. Two million were ethnic Poles, the remaining 500,000 were mainly ethnic minority Ukrainians and Belarusians living in Poland.
The majority of those killed by Nazi Germany were civilians (exceeding military deaths nearly 10:1).
From the start of the war against Poland, Germany intended to realize the plan laid-out by theNazi leader Adolf Hitler in his 1926 book Mein Kampf. The aim of this plan was to turn Eastern Europe into part of greater Germany, the so-called German Lebensraum ("living space"). Nazi ideology had viewed Slavs as a racially inferior group. On August 22, 1939, on the invasion of Poland, Hitler gave explicit permission to his commanders to kill "without pity or mercy, men, women, and children of Polish descent or language".
Genocide was conducted systematically against Polish people: on September 7, 1939 Reinhard Heydrich stated that all Polish nobles, clergy and Jews are to be killed, on September 12 Wilhelm Keitel added intelligentsia to the list, at the end of 1940 Hitler demanded liquidation of "all leading elements in Poland" and on March 15, 1940, Himmler stated All Polish specialists will be exploited in our military-industrial complex. Later, all Poles will disappear from this world. It is imperative that the great German nation considers the elimination of all Polish people as its chief task.
1939 September Campaign
About 150,000 to 200,000 Polish civilians were killed during the one-month September Campaign, characterized by the indiscriminate and often deliberate targeting of civilians by the invading forces of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Many of the them were killed in the Luftwaffe's terror bombing operations (including the bombing of Frampol and Wielu?,). Massive air raids were conducted on these, and other towns which had no military infrastructure. Columns of fleeing refugees were systematically attacked by the German fighter and dive-bomber aircraft.
From the first day of the war, the round-ups and summary executions of Poles commenced by Wehrmacht, SS and Selbstschutz. Several thousand Polish POWs were also murdered.


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1978 Soviet Military Topographic Map of Saudi Arabia, Sheet 07-38-143
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- This georeferenced map is a 1:100,000 scale topographic map produced by the Soviet military in 1978. The map was georeferenced by staff at NYU Data Services. Maps produced by the Soviet military were believed to be to be used as an organizing framework for knowledge about the world and were compiled through a combination of aerial intelligence and on-the-ground observation. Sheet numbering is based on the alphanumeric system adopted by the International Map of the World (IMW), in which the globe is divided into equal-sized zones based upon latitude and longitude. Each zone is further subdivided so that the position of a sheet at the full range of scales can be deduced. The date and factory of production of each map are provided in a unique code that is embedded within the outer border, usually at the bottom right. For more information, see the manual and scholarship of John M. Davies and Alexander Kent in the documentation. The download link provides both the original scan, as well as a georectified version of the scan.
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- Soviet 1:100k of Saudi Arabia and Soviet Military Topographic Maps
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Since I am incapable of gentle nudges, I am hereby declaring what I DON'T want for Christmas.
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
I've Got Teeth, I Want Something Else For Christmas
Since I am incapable of gentle nudges, I am hereby declaring what I DON'T want for Christmas.
11 comments:
- Peggy said...
"Painter of Trite"! I love it!
- December 5, 2012 at 9:53 AM
- Connie said...
OOPS! Looks like I need to make some returns, hopefully the lines won't be too long. Would a velvet painting of Elvis suffice?
- December 5, 2012 at 10:08 AM
- just call me jo said...
Are you sure that Thomas Kincaid actually went to heaven? (There I go judging again. I'm bad at that.)You, my friend, are a bit nutty, but I do like you a lot.
- December 5, 2012 at 11:31 AM
- Melynda@Scratch Made Food! said...
Since bacon is out, how about a pickle for the tree?
- December 5, 2012 at 12:18 PM
- Robyn said...
OK this post was so funny I lost my comment LOL!
- December 5, 2012 at 12:52 PM
- Lisa Ricard Claro said...
Ahhh...I love the smell of the Ponderosa anytime! Hubby and I even visited during our honeymoon in Tahoe. :) Your take on TK is hilarious. And probably true!
- December 5, 2012 at 3:19 PM
- RoeH said...
Thomas Kincaid? Was I the only one in the world who didn't like his paintings? Weren't they just a tad too much? Maybe he went south. (hopehope)
I'm a badddd girl.
- December 5, 2012 at 4:02 PM
- Unknown said...
I'll take one of each of those too...with a side of bacon.
- December 5, 2012 at 7:25 PM
- Pondside said...
No eyebrow extensions?...even if they come with a jar of bacon grease eyebrow fixative???
- December 5, 2012 at 10:24 PM
- Sharon Leavy said...
I like Kinkade but I HATE THOSE ORNAMENTAL CHILDREN. It is enough to have to clean up the dust my actual living child makes without having to clean those dust-magnet-THINGS. I especially hate the mini bride/groom ones, they are CHILDREN.
- December 10, 2012 at 3:09 PM
- Susan Anderson said...
These are some excellent things NOT to want.
- December 12, 2012 at 11:26 AM


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Council votes to close Carlisle 911 dispatch center
Council cites upgrade in technology, saving money as benefit
A controversial vote in Carlisle passed Thursday night and now the borough will close its 911 dispatch center.
Council voted 5-2 to shut down the dispatch center inside the Carlisle Police Department.
Around 80 Carlisle residents got up and left after the majority of council made their decision to transfer 911 calls to Cumberland County.
Council members in favor of the switch say it will save the borough money -- $30,000 the first year and around $100,000 years after that.
But at Thursday night's meeting, the saving didn't take center stage for some residents.
"When you call the police department and they know you, they know your neighborhood; they may know the people you're dealing with when you have a problem. There's no amount of technology that could surpass that. I think it's a mistake to think that it will," said Russell Ward, a resident.
"It's really important that council represents the people but they didn't tonight," said Stacey Snyder, a resident.
Among those residents, police officers and the borough's dispatchers were referred to as the experts.
"It's not because they're afraid…our dispatch system works," said Stephen Margeson, Carlisle police chief.
Besides saving money, the council president says the switch means an upgrade in technology and better response.
But to residents, it's a change they say will be difficult to make.
"I certainly can't change the vote but I certainly can vote when the elections come up," said Ward.


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Mitt Romney might not have been a particularly awesome Presidential candidate (or a particularly enlightened pet owner), but in matters of basic human decency, his bona fides are unassailable. So it was appropriate and magnanimous of him to sound off over the weekend in defense of the man who bested him in 2012, Barack Obama.
Romney, in a statement to The Boston Herald, excoriated Robert Copeland, the rural New Hampshire police commissioner who was overheard using a racial slur to describe the President – and who, despite widespread and uniform condemnation, initially refused even to apologize, let alone resign. Defending his N-word usage, Copeland said the President "meets and exceeds my criteria for such." His forced resignation was announced by the town government yesterday.
Romney, who owns a nearby vacation home in New Hampshire, minced no words is calling for Copeland to apologize and resign, in no particular order. "The vile epithet used and confirmed by the commissioner has no place in our community," he told the Herald. Good for Mitt.
THE PR VERDICT: "A" (PR Perfect) for Mitt Romney, for throwing his moral authority around – and knowing he had to.
THE PR TAKEAWAY: Know when you must speak up. It is as important as knowing when not to. Romney's remarks about his onetime opponent's White House tenure and the 2012 Presidential contest haven't always been supportive or conciliatory. And likely the passage of time hasn't fully dulled his smarting from the 2012 loss. In the current matter, he could have kept quiet, but likely sooner or later the press would have come calling, expecting an opinion. Romney, among other Obama critics who have also called for Copeland's resignation, is uniquely credentialed to weigh in: He lives in the community. That made it all the more necessary that he speak out. After all, in the end all politics is local. Along with The World Outside, Romney's neighbors also deserved to know where he stood.


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Guide will offer advice on recovering system services after disruptions
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is updating its seven-year-old planning guidelines and has released a draft of Special Publication 800-34, Revision 1, Contingency Planning Guide for Federal Information Systems for public comment.
"Because information system resources are so essential to an organization's success, it is critical that the services provided by these systems are able to operate effectively without excessive interruption," the guidelines state.
The publication provides instructions, recommendations and considerations for creating plans for interim measures to recover information system services after a disruption. The plans should coordinate a strategy, including procedures and technical measures, for the recovery of information systems, operations and data.
Plans can include restoring information systems on alternate equipment; moving some or all business processes to alternate systems, usually for short-term disruptions; recovering systems at an alternate location, usually for long-term disruptions or those that physically affect a facility; and implementing the appropriate controls based on the systems security impact level.
The guide includes sample formats for developing an information system contingency plan based on low, moderate or high impact levels, as defined in Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 199, Standards for Security Categorization of Federal Information and Information Systems.
The guide breaks the planning process into seven steps, intended to be integrated into each stage of the system development life cycle:
1. Develop the contingency planning policy statement. A formal policy provides the authority and guidance necessary to develop an effective contingency plan.
2. Conduct the business impact analysis. The BIA helps identify and prioritize information systems and components critical to supporting the organization's business functions. The guide provides a template for developing the BIA.
3. Identify preventive controls. Measures taken to reduce the effects of system disruptions can increase system availability and reduce contingency life cycle costs.
4. Create contingency strategies. Thorough recovery strategies ensure that the system may be recovered quickly and effectively following a disruption.
5. Develop an information system contingency plan. The contingency plan should contain detailed guidance and procedures for restoring a damaged system unique to the system's security impact level and recovery requirements.
6. Ensure plan testing, training, and exercises. Testing validates recovery capabilities, whereas training prepares recovery personnel for plan activation and exercising the plan identifies planning gaps; combined, the activities improve plan effectiveness and overall organizational preparedness.
7. Ensure plan maintenance. The plan should be a living document that is updated regularly to remain current with system enhancements and organizational changes.
"Contingency planning is unique to each system, providing preventive measures, recovery strategies, and technical considerations appropriate to the system's information confidentiality, integrity, and availability requirements and the impact level," NIST said. The guidelines address specific recommendations for three platform types and provide strategies and techniques common to all systems: client-server systems, telecommunications systems and mainframe systems.
Information in the guide is consistent with other NIST documents, including SP 800-53, "Recommended Security Controls for Federal Information Systems and Organizations and FIPS 199, as well as with federal mandates on contingency, continuity of operations, and disaster recovery planning, including:
Comments on the draft should be sent by Jan. 6, 2010, to [email protected] with "Comments SP 800-34" in the subject line.
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Influence of the Pre-Reformation Church on Scottish Place-Names – Saint Leonard
The relics of Saint Andrew were brought at an early date to Fife in Scotland. Many pilgrims flocked to his shrine, and a hospital was built for their reception some time, it is believed, in the twelfth century. This hospital, like so many others, was dedicated to Saint Leonard, but was suppressed by Prior Hepburn in 1512, when Saint Leonard's College was founded. The saint continues to be remembered in the name of Saint Leonard's parish.
According to Alban Butler, Leonard was a French nobleman at the Court of Clovis I, but quitted the Court and sought retirement at Mobilac, near Limoges, where he founded a monastery, called after him Saint Leonard de Noblat. He died about the middle of the sixth century. He was noted for his kindness to captives, and became, in after-times, their patron saint. His emblem in art is a chain, in allusion to this trait in his character. The Rev. R. Owen mentions that
"Bohemond, Prince of Antioch, son of Robert Guiscard, when he came to France in 1106, visited Limoges and offered silver fetters to Saint Leonard as a thankoffering for his escape from captivity."– from , by James Murray Mackinlay, 1904


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Sylvain Giroux
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I'm a part-time reviewer and peer mentor for Mozilla Add-ons team.
For my full time job, I develop and lead the development of web browser extensions on Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.
Besides web programming I also build C++ projects such as anti-malware, antiphising and security applications.
Tagsamo, nightly user, thunderbird, javascript, html5, add-on reviewers
Dovednostic++, css, css3, git, html, html5, javascript, jquery, json, lamp, mercurial, nsis, php, postgresql, xml
JazykyAngličtina, Francouzština
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- Mozilla Add-ons: sylvain-giroux
- Bugzilla (BMO): :Spoji
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sylvaingiroux
Scott DeVaney
One of our most astute curators of featured content on the AMO Feature Board.
Absolutely helpful member. He really gets close and personal to users looking for help who pop onto IRC or email AMO-Editors for support - this is really a priceless contribution he makes! He even goes beyond and helps with localization for French too! I can't do justice to explain his help on a personal level on a case by case basis.
David Weir
its good to have a new person to the AMO reviewer team, PS you have done a good job getting this far
ENjoy being part of the AMO review team
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What is the most exciting end to a sporting event?
My order is as follows
1) Hail Mary
2) Game-winning half-court shot
3) Walk-off home run
4) 50-foot birdie on final hole of tournament
5) Goal scored at very end of hockey game
I don't know if it's fair to compare a Hail Mary to a game-ending home run, since a Hail Mary happens once or twice during a season and that's about it. It's a lot rarer than a walk-off home run. It's better to compare a walk-off HR to something like a last-second field goal or short touchdown, in which case the home run wins out. It's hard to beat the dramatic value of home run. The second people hear the crack of the bat, they start going absolutely apeshit. Here's a video of David Freese's game-winner from Game 6 of the 2011 World Series:
That's pretty solid. The nice thing about home runs is that they're definitive. You don't need to wait for a ref to raise his arms. It's clear to everyone in the stadium, which means they all go nuts at the same time, which is nice! It's like timing mutual orgasms. So my list of common good sports endings would go:
1. Walk-off home run
2. Buzzer beater
3. Last-second TD
4. Sudden-death overtime goal (hockey)
5. Knockout
6. Penalty kicks (soccer)
7. Photo finish (horsey racing)
8. Last-second field goal
9. Walk-off base hit
I left the longass putt off the list because, again, it's a pretty rare occurrence. Any time I watch a golf tourney, I always hope some dude will hole out a fairway shot for eagle for a miracle win and it never happens. Also, a long putt usually can't take you from losing to winning. It can only take you from losing to tying or tying to winning. Not that it won't stop Jim Nantz from skeeting himself and nominating you for a Congressional Medal of Honor.
If we're going with all rare but still possible endings, then my vote is a Hail Mary in the middle of a blizzard with a receiver who's playing on one broken leg wrestling the ball away from a defensive back who bragged about nailing the receiver's wife on Twitter just the day before WHILE another player pulls a gun and tries to assassinate Roger Goodell while he sits in the luxury box.
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Can you take a shit and just use Purell? That ain't right.
It's not. You have to do the full lather and rinse after a shit. It's more of a gray area after pissing. I mean, you should probably wash your hands after every piss. But what if you're in a hurry? Or what if it's the middle of the night? Or what if you JUST pissed three minutes ago and this is just an appendix to that last piss because you didn't shake enough at the end? That hardly counts as a full piss. Using Purell after that non-piss is almost going the extra mile. I usually just go right back to eating chicken drumsticks because I'm awful.
In my experience, you really only use Purell if it happens to be around. Go to any hospital and there's a Purell dispenser every six feet, which alarms me because I always picture a surgeon taking a big shit and then only using Purell before removing a person's liver. Everyone in the hospital uses the Purell dispensers, so I follow suit because I'm a sheep. Same with kiddie birthday parties. Kiddie gyms have gallon containers of the stuff lying around, and I'll grab a squirt just because I have nothing better to do. I like to rub it in my hands and then smell my hands. Smells like I just juggled napalm. CHARLIE DON'T SURF!
What would the political/social/economic ramifications be if Osama bin Laden were to show up undeniably alive? Just for arguments sake, say he puts out a video that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that he was not killed in Abbottabad. Would Obama be impeached? Would the stock market collapse? Would Goodell fine the military?
You can kiss Zero Dark Thirty's Oscar hopes goodbye, THAT'S FOR DAMN SURE.
Obviously, people would shit their pants. If they didn't impeach the president, they'd at least have so many committee meetings on the subject that you'd WANT him impeached just so that you'd never have to hear about it again. Obama lovers the world over would become bin Laden death truthers, marching out argument after argument about why bin Laden couldn't possibly be alive. The president's ruined credibility would make it virtually impossible for him to govern. "Oh, you want gun control? I DON'T THINK SO, GERONIMO." Al Qaeda and the Taliban would be reinvigorated. We'd have to re-invade Afghanistan, which is fun! Burke and Dickey would discover that a small Polynesian lady had played bin Laden in the videos the whole time, and that bin Laden never actually existed.
On a personal level, I would become depressed and hopeless. If bin Laden sprang back to life, I'd become fearful that the War on Terror will rage on forever, that bin Laden would never die, and that evil itself could never fully be vanquished from the globe (it can't anyway, but bin Laden would be a shitty daily reminder of it). The idea that we'd have to spend even more money and blood tracking him down and killing him AGAIN would be too much to bear. WILL THE ENDLESS CYCLE OF VIOLENCE NEVER CEASE?! Fucking bin Laden. Why couldn't he just go away like Paul Maguire eventually did?
What's the age limit to enjoying a delicious candy cane and having the urge to create a makeshift prison shank and start a jailhouse raid?
No age limit. A lick-sharpened candy cane is a lethal weapon in the wrong hands. I try to make imaginary weapons out of random household items all the time, just like Bullseye or Jason Bourne with the magazine that one time. Any time I hold a pizza cutter in my hands, I picture myself slashing a terrorist's neck with it and then tossing off a great one-liner like "SOMEONE ORDER A SLICE?!" I also have a meat tenderizer that I never use but is excellent as a makeshift pretend weapon. I am programmed to kill at all times.
If I were trapped in a Walmart fighting terrorists, I would superglue razor blades to a frisbee and decapitate them with it. I've given days of thought to it. I really want to do that one day.
Speaking of candy canes, I would like candy canes and lollipops to stop developing razor sharp slits after three minutes of suckage. I wanted a sweet treat. I didn't expect to have my tongue cut off.
My wife spotted this little gal hanging out about a foot away from me as I was working in my basement a couple of months ago. I had no idea they lived here, and now am scared every time I go to put my shoes on (as that is where they typically like to rest up). Naturally, I instantly ran away after taking this picture and made her kill the beast.
Have a good sleep.
Jesus. It looks like a spider wearing a supervillain costume.
What is the protocol for using your smartphone for emails/texts/alerts during those big group/departmental meetings where 90% of the subject matter has nothing to do with you and you wish you had those glasses Homer sports in the Jury Duty Episode of the Simpsons? I feel rude spending the entire meeting answering emails on my phone, but we already discussed this crap in last weeks' pointless finance meeting.
So where do you draw the line? Pay attention at all time? Only when someone is talking to you, or about something that concerns you?
I used to get up to "take a shit" whenever I wanted to leave a meeting and spend 20 minutes dicking around on my phone (or head back to my desk and surf the internet while everyone else was trapped inside). I used to do this eight times per meeting. Hell, my boss would do it because he had ADD. The worst part is that moment of hesitation right before you finally decide to get up and leave. Will anyone notice? If they do, will you be fired? It's doubly nerve-wracking if no one else has left the meeting yet. Sometimes, another person will get up first and that gives you your cue. HE WAS FIRST! THEY'LL NEVER SEE ME SLIPPING OUT UNDER COVER OF DARKNESS.
Same with phones. I feel much more free to whip mine out if someone nearby does it before me. That makes it half as likely that someone will see me using it, right? That's my logic. I'm just trying to do it whenever I think no one will see me, which results in me taking out my phone once every 10 minutes, scanning it, and then putting it away after freaking out that I've been on it too long and I've been made by my boss. I also go through this exact thought process when whipping the phone out in front of my wife. I always think, she won't notice me, right? And then, two minutes later, "WILL YOU PUT THAT FUCKING PHONE AWAY?"
When you're driving down a particularly steep hill, does your mind ever start to plan out the exact course of action you would take if you discovered your brakes were cut (specifically "cut"...in my mind SOMEBODY wants me out of the picture)?
I always do that shit. I try to pick out exactly where I would expertly swerve the car through traffic and hop an embankment, smoothly power sliding into someone's front yard. Of course, if this WERE to ever happen, all plans would fly out the window much like my own rag dolled body after I panic and slam into a school bus and roll my car 20 times.
This is the reason why all cars have a neutral option on the gear shift (also so you can be towed, but whatever). There are few things more exciting than putting the car in N and letting gravity push you down a steep hill. God, such danger. I feel like I'm piloting a glider when I do that. And I saved half a penny in gas, which makes me the most considerate man in the world.
The closest I've ever come to having brake failure was the time I tried inline skating in the parking lot of the National Cathedral. My wife sat on the lawn while I fucked around on the skates in a secluded satellite parking lot. But I got running downhill and couldn't stop because inline skates are DEATH TRAPS, so I aimed for a patch of grass nearby and, just before ramming into the curb, I leapt and did a commando roll on the grass. I suffered only minor bruises, saving what would have surely been countless lives if I had continued speeding down the hill at 85 mph.
Would you rather have corduroy skin or muffin hands? The muffin hands grow back after you eat them and can be any two flavors of your choosing. However, your hands will be shaped like muffins, NOT a human pair of hands made of muffins. The corduroy skin is, well, corduroy.
I'll take the corduroy. THE WAITING DROVE ME MAD...
You don't want muffin hands, even if we're talking great muffin flavors like chocolate chip or blueberry crumb. You'd be rendered disabled without working hands, AND you'd become a hopeless fatass with all that carb-loaded goodness available to you. And without hands, you'd be unable to butter your muffin stumps! OH THE TRAGIC IRONY.
Assuming it was somehow biologically viable, the corduroy skin would leave you fully functional. And think of all the people who would want to nuzzle against you.
There's a lady in my office who lost a noticeable amount of weight in recent weeks. Is there any acceptable way to compliment a female coworker on slimming down?
I think it's OK to do the whole "Have you lost weight? You look great!" thing with her. Take it from someone who has lost large amounts of weight in the past: You NEVER get offended when people tell you that you look good. No one is ever like, "How DARE you compliment me, sir!" If you keep it generic and friendly, I don't think it's rude to point that out. The key is to not be like, "Wow! You look great! I mean, I never gave you a second glance before. But now? HUBBA HUBBA. Let's give that new body of yours a test drive on my cotton sheets, YOU SEXY APE. I wanna CRUSH that poon before you gain it all back!" That would be going too far.
Do you wish your bedding gave off more of a rape-y vibe? Well have I found the product for you! Perfect for crushing chicks!
Holy shit. THOSE ARE JAY GLAZER'S SHEETS, GUYS! The "American Arrogant" text really sold it for me.
Speaking of Jay Glazer, why is does every terrible nightclub event have the exact same poster design? Whether it's Glazer's Super Bowl party or Kenny Britt throwing a special birthday party/donkey-punching ceremony, you always get an invite that has 87 different fonts (including a script font to make it look classy). The invite may as well say, "YOU ARE INVITED TO GET SHOT."
I live with three other guys. We're all mid-twenties, standard young professionals. And we like to play Halo. Unfortunately, one of the guys is TERRIBLE. Like, embarrassingly bad. To make things worse, when he plays, I have to go split screen. So not only is my team handicapped, but I don't even get to enjoy my gaming on the full screen. Is there any way we can just confront him and tell him to go play Mario in his room instead of ruining our gaming sessions? A man's gaming prime only lasts so long.
I'm surprised he hasn't given up out of pure shame yet. Usually, your disapproving glances and CLEAR lack of enthusiasm to be playing with someone of inferior skills is enough to drive the poor bastard away. I know this because when I was in college, one guy I knew had Madden '97 for his PlayStation. But I only had full training in Madden '96 for N64, so I needed reps to get better at the PlayStation version. But I was way too late. This guy and his roommates were already masters. They would play wild games that ended 49-47 with endless shit-talking and high-fiving, then I would get my turn and lose 50-7 in dead fucking silence. It's an awful feeling. It's one thing to have your ass handed to you, but this guy couldn't even get excited about beating the shit out of me. You don't wanna be the guy sucking the air out of the room. I'm sure, at some point, your roommate will take the hint and then go cry.
Why the hell is there a rule that requires seven men to be on the line of scrimmage on offense prior to the snap?
Safety. According to the folks at Sunday Morning QB (far preferable to the Monday and Tuesday morning varieties), the illegal-formation penalty exists to prevent offenses from running fling wedges and other formations that would result in 50 shattered fibulas per NFL game. Turns out the NFL actually DID care about safety way back when. Who knew?
A friend saved a tomato with about four grains of rice from dinner. Is this acceptable? I find it appalling. Unless I'm a third world malaria baby this seems useless. Would you point this out? I sure as fuck want to.
You have to point it out. That's just future garbage. There isn't any meat being saved in that container. No one likes raw tomatoes enough to preserve one stupid slice for future use.
My wife chastises me all the time for saving bits of food that need to be thrown away. I hate wasting food so much that I'll happily save two ounces of takeout rice in a Tupperware that's eight sizes too large.
HER: Why did you save this?
ME: The kids might like it.
HER: It's taking up space in the fridge.
ME: We could make Italian RISOTTO BALLS with it in a pinch if we have to.
HER: (throws the rice away, forces me to wash the Tupperware)
So do take care when saving your leftovers. I always think I'll want those two spoonfuls of tikka masala sauce the next day, but then the next day arrives and I end up turning up my nose at the idea of eating oldass food. If there's no meat left, toss that shit.
(By the way, those styrofoam containers are awful. They're always way too big, and they NEVER fit in the trash can properly. It's as if they've been specifically designed to be maximally wasteful.)
What are some things that get considerably better (or more enjoyable) as you get older? My top 3 has to be: 1.) really nice, hoity-toity dinners, 2.) alone time and 3.) liquor drinks.
Dinners, for sure. When I was a kid, my folks used to drag me out to restaurants to eat and they would sit there for fucking hours while I would hide under the table and play imaginary drums for Mötley Crüe with the flatware. Both my parents and my grandparents were the kind of people who would have coffee after dinner, and they'd get refill after refill of decaf, chatting away while I went to the bathroom for the 10th time. My grandma would be like, "Oh, I'd love another cup!" while I screamed NOOOOOOOOO. Ordering coffee after a meal should be illegal.
And when you're young and single, dinner parties sound like the lamest thing imaginable. You mean we're just gonna sit there? We're not even gonna drink from a funnel? Suit yourself, dipshits. I'M ALL ABOUT CRUSHING SOME ROLLIN' ROCKS AND CRUSHING SOME HEAVY PUSSY. Dinner was whatever shit I could throw on the Foreman grill in between drinking tall boys and playing Mario Golf before heading out to the bar at 11. FUCKING HARDCORE.
But now that I'm an old geezer, a nice dinner is pretty much the apex of my existence, especially if the kids aren't around to scream and bitch. I'll happily sit there for hours talking about stupid grownup shit with other people. No coffee though. I still don't know why people order coffee after dinner when there's alcohol to be had.
Some other things that get better as you get older:
• Reading. Whoa hey, I can understand this stuff now! Neat.
• Slow boat rides. Let's just cruise the lake, everyone! (steers boat while drunk)
• Work. Obviously, this is not universal. Plenty of old people still hate work. But if you're older, you likely have more experience and are therefore better (and often better-paid) than the cumheads fresh out of college. Plus, you get rest from taking care of the kids.
• Hifalutin, Gregggggg-approved magazines like The Atlantic
• Wine. I really DID detect hints of smoke in that malbec I drank the other night. So refined.
• Yelling at skateboarders. Because they're all pieces of shit.
• Watching football. Seriously, it's still lots of fun.
When do you think was the last time President Obama drove himself anywhere? Secret Service must drive him literally every place he goes. If he never drives, it's entirely possible that I am a much better driver than him, right? It makes me happy to know I probably do at least one thing better than the POTUS.
I'm sure he's driven a golf cart from time to time, plus he can probably drive around Camp David if he feels like it. I would do that if I were president. I would totally sneak out and get in mah pickup truck to go eat a meatball sub, just so that people knew I was REAL FOLK. Either way, good drivers usually stay good, and shitty drivers usually stay shitty, no matter much they drive or don't drive. Take it from someone who lives in Maryland. Everyone here drives a lot, and they aren't getting any better at it.
It would be nice to be better than the president at something, though. TEMPLE RUN! I'm way better than him at Temple Run. At least, I hope I am.
And now, I give you Paul from Boston, America's worst parent:
The other night I was grilling three burgers for me, my wife and four-year-old son. We all had cheeseburgers. It was dark, so I couldn't see them that well until I got inside.
Once inside I realized that there was a dead spider melted into the cheese on one of the burgers. I quickly brushed it off, but there may have been a leg or two stuck in the cheese. I realized that I had a few choices at this point.
1) Throw the burger away (although these were the last three burgers in the house and not a great alternative for dinner existed)
2) Take one for the team and eat it myself
3) Give it to my wife
4) Give it to my son
Option four is the best answer, right? One was out of the question and if I went with two I would be thinking about it all night. Three was my other option, but if she got sick, I was stuck taking care of her, so I went with Option four. Chances are he wouldn't eat the whole thing anyways and at least if he got sick my wife could deal with him. Had to be done, right?
You are history's greatest monster. Never feed your child a spiderburger.


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Wednesday, December 3, 2008
He Still Moves Stones!
Posted by Mom to 5...Daughter of the King at 9:50 AM
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- a Tonggu Momma said...
This little girl is of Hakka descent just like our Tongginator. I am so relieved to hear that she may have found a donor. Thanks for sharing the news!!!!
- December 3, 2008 at 11:24 AM
- Melissa said...
WOW. I have no words for this story, other than unbelievable. If that doesn't convince you, nothing will.
- December 3, 2008 at 11:25 AM
- Dawn said...
I've been following this story on their Caring Bridge site, it is just so amazing to see the Lord at work isn't it?!!!!!
- December 3, 2008 at 12:02 PM
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Bruno Too Gay for MPAA
The MPAA's "no homo" rule strikes again! Sascha Baron Cohen's new mockumentary Bruno, in which he terrorizes straight men with flagrant gayness, has earned an NC-17, partly because of a scene depicting buttsex.
The Wrap reports that the film—in which Baron Cohen plays gay Austrian fashion correspondent Bruno who talks about doing ickies with other men—got the basically-banned-from-theaters rating because, in part, the character "appears to have anal sex with a man on camera. In another, the actor goes on a hunting trip and sneaks naked into the tent of one of the fellow hunters, an unsuspecting non-actor."
Baron Cohen's previous outing with Universal, Borat, initially earned an NC-17 as well, but was re-edited and got its coveted R. That film had a famous naked men wrestling sequence, though it wasn't as overtly homocentric as Bruno butt fucking or going on a talk show to discuss same-sex parenting, adopted black baby in tow. The notoriously homo and dick-phobic ratings board just can't abide that. Baron Cohen has appealed and the film will go back to the editing room to try and come up with a more palatable version.
Meanwhile the gratuitous tits of a movie not trying to say anything at all except "Straight men! Whoo!" like the abysmal College sail comfortably under the radar. Boys will be boys, not do them.